Name: Sacred Connections: Designing Home Funerals as Ritual Acts
Start: 2026-07-17T20:00:00-0400
End: 2026-07-17T21:30:00-0400

Sacred Connections: Designing Home Funerals as Ritual Acts

Friday July 17, 2026 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT

Ashford

Explore how families and families of choice can create meaningful home funerals rooted in ancestral practices, natural magick, and spiritual direction. Include hands-on elements like ritual washing, altar building, and storytelling circles. We will incorporate Kispum (Sumerian Funerary Rites)/Continuing Bonds into the workshop as a memorial ritual.

Explore
how families and families of choice can create meaningful home funerals rooted
in ancestral practices, natural magick, and spiritual direction. Include
hands-on elements like ritual washing, altar building, and storytelling
circles. We will incorporate Kispum (Sumerian Funerary Rites)/Continuing Bonds into the workshop as a memorial ritual.

Speakers

Legal Name: Lawrence Lerner Badge Name: Silent

Priest | Spiritual Director | Death Doula, To Keep Silent

Silent is a Pagan priest, elder, trusted advisor, and end-of-life doula with decades of experience guiding individuals through transformative life journeys. Silent is one of the hosts of SpiritNorthwest.com in Portland. Join us for SNW III April 22 - 25, 2027.Join me on Substack

He is a board director for Cherry Hill Seminary in South Carolina and President of Pagan Pride in Washington state. His priesthood is not just a role—it’s a vocation of sovereignty, reconstructionist Sumerian rituals, and modern insights, inspiring seekers to explore the magick within... Read More →

Friday July 17, 2026 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
Ashford

Workshop

Take aways: How to construct home funerals as a modern PaganWhat are the different methods of body disposalWhat are the practical and magikal steps for funeralsThe role of friends, family, death doulas, and psychopomps

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